It’s no secret anymore that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn are over. Considering she’s one of the most visible musicians on the planet, it’s surprising that this split remained hidden for even a few days.
Six years was a good run. Reports about how they broke up have only reinforced the notion that their romance was going great while it lasted.
Taylor has made a career out of expressing herself through music. She often tells new things to the fans through lyrics.
And now, it looks like she was using music to hint at the breakup, publicly. Week before the news broke.
Many of Taylor Swift’s songs are about specific people in her life. Obviously, many of them are the former.
“The Invisible String”, famously, is a love letter to Joe Alwyn. He was her lover for more than half a decade.
Taylor is currently on tour. Even late last month, fans noticed they weren’t hearing the song when they expected.
On March 31, Taylor performed “Invisible Strings” to a huge crowd at her Eras Tour show in Arlington, Texas.
Instead, he referred to it as “The 1.” Changed for.
Fans are connecting the dots on social media. In short, Taylor was dropping hints about their breakup.
On Twitter, Tumblr, and TikTok, Taylor’s fans are pointing out that she pulled off this switcheroo right before the world said yes.
“The 1” isn’t about a soulmate, but about “how funny it would be” if there was “the one”.
With a soulful farewell ballad that replaces a love letter to Alwyn…for a hint, it’s not that subtle.
A TikToker mocks the Easter weekend: “This wasn’t the Easter egg I was expecting this weekend.”
In some media, especially video games, “Easter egg” is a colloquialism for a small cameo, inside joke, or even a hint or clue that some people will get and others will not.
solid sentence. The kind you can really only make once a year. They saw their opportunity, and they ran with it.
Despite multiple reports from extremely reliable sources about the breakup, some Swifties were initially in denial.
Some people don’t go into the world of entertainment news except for a couple of favorites. to them, they may not know the difference between tmz And People And, say, the less credible tabloids we can name if we so choose.
For some of these fans, Taylor’s change to her tour tracklist did more to show them that the relationship was over than any report. page six Did.
We learned over the weekend that Taylor and Joe have split.
Reports have repeatedly emphasized that it was a low-drama (or no-drama) breakup.
The split went down a few weeks ago. And it seems, as far as the breakup goes, there are no hard feelings.
So what?
Well, these are two busy, working adults who have spent six years in a relationship.
Over time, they changed, they grew and they diverged. Some relationships just end naturally.
Taylor and Joe first met in 2016 at the Met Gala. Cara Delevigne introduces the two, and they secretly hit things off.
They only went public in 2017. Taylor was going through a public relations phase at the time after Kim Kardashian took advantage of Taylor’s current over-exposure. They were together through thick and thin.
Perhaps we’ll learn more about this breakup in the near future. But it doesn’t even seem that there is much in it. Our best bet for details would be the content of Taylor’s future music.